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Michael H Primus Crew
Member of Primus crew
Group
The 490th Bomb Group, like the 486th and 487th Bomb Groups transitioned from flying B-24 Liberators to B-17 Flying Fortresses, which were used in combat missions from late August 1944. Based at Eye, Suffolk, the Group were focused in the early months...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 20/5/44; Kearney 31/5/44; Grenier 7/6/44; Assigned 849BS/490BG Eye [W8- ] 11/6/44; on routine navigation night flight 27/9/44 with Mike Primus, Co-pilot: Louis Deputy, Navigator: Rich Herman, Bombardier: Bob Simmons, Flight engineer...
Military site : airfield
Eye air base was not a Class A base but was constructed to a less demanding standard by the 827th and 859th Battalions of U.S. Army Engineers in 1943 and was finished in early 1944. Unusually, a group of its hardstandings were on the other side of the...
| Event | Location | Date |
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Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 16 March 2015 15:52:06 | usxpat | Changes to highest rank, events, place associations and media associations |
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Find A Grave Memorial# 56290644 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:22:38 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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490th Bomb Group Unit Personnel / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |
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